Africa should dictate terms of its relationships with U.S.
U.S. President Joe Biden has dispatched Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) to Ethiopia to meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to express the administration’s “grave concerns” about the humanitarian crisis in the country’s Tigray region. Sudan and Egypt, because of their water dependence on the Nile River, asked the Biden administration, the UN and the African Union to intervene...
Second prayer app caught harvesting user location data may have snitched on Muslims to ICE and FBI—media
A popular Muslim prayer app has been secretly collecting its users’ location data, according to Vice. A network of data brokers links the app to U.S. government law enforcement agencies such as ICE and the FBI. The app called Salaat First (Prayer Times) was created to help Muslims perform their daily prayers, reminding when the time for the ritual has...
West ‘getting away with murder’ in Libya
- Ten reasons why the U.S. war in Libya is a CIA operation (FCN, 04-28-2011) WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The American-led NATO campaign against the government of Libya is lunging more and more towards becoming a quagmire like the U.S. campaign in Vietnam 40 years ago. Observers complain of “mission creep,” the expansion of the original mission authorized by the UN Security Council,...
Wealth of the top one percent in U.S. hits all-time high of $45 trillion
Data released by the Federal Reserve on March 28 shows the top one percent of Americans are the richest they’ve ever been. The new data reveals that at the end of the fourth quarter last year they had a record $44.6 trillion in wealth. That’s up from $30 trillion in 2020. The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock...
British forces killed 54 Afghan civilians ‘in cold blood’, damning report reveals
Commandos in Britain’s elite Special Air Service (SAS) corps killed at least 54 Afghan civilians in controversial circumstances, but the senior military officials refused to act despite being aware of it, a BBC investigation has revealed. The four-year probe results, published on July 12, found that during their deployment in the war-torn country, unarmed Afghan men were routinely shot dead “in cold blood”...
WFP feeds more than one million in Tigray, but needs support to reach more
More than one million people in two areas of the war-ravaged Tigray region in Ethiopia have received emergency food assistance since distributions began in March, the World Food Program (WFP) reported recently. WFP has been supporting people in the Northwestern and Southern zones affected by the conflict between Ethiopian Government forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which began in November. Aster...
New British leader’s disturbing remarks recalled by African media outlets
GINNEWS (GIN)–African media greeted the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, by recalling some of particularly cringe-worthy remarks made during his formative years in politics. The new Conservative Party leader has a history of gaffes involving Kenya and Africa, having once attacked Barack Obama saying the “part-Kenyan president” had an “ancestral dislike of the British Empire” after he removed a bust...
Activists demand U.S. attends race conference
NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) - The December 12th Movement, a Brooklyn-based advocacy group, spearheaded a March 21 national grassroots day of protest against a decision by the Obama administration not to attend the Durban Review Conference in Geneva, Switzerland April 20-24. The meeting is a follow up to a major international conference on race eight years ago. Standing in front of...
Europol arrests nearly 400 in child trafficking raids
The European Union (EU)’s police agency, Europol, has arrested nearly 400 people during raids targeting child trafficking suspects in a number of European countries. Europol said in a statement on Nov. 4 that during the raids—coordinated with Britain, Portugal, Spain, and nine other EU countries—at least 388 people were arrested and 249 potential victims were identified, of whom 61 were...
World media, IAEA warns against war with Iran
Iranian ambassador sets the record straight (FCN, 04-07-2007)Nuclear hypocrisy in Iran’s treatment (FCN, 03-12-2006) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - Mohammed El-Baradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), during the opening day of the 51st annual regular session of the IAEA General Conference in Vienna Sept. 17, warned against the “hasty use of force over Iran’s nuclear program,” in...